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permeated
[ pur-mee-ey-tid ]
adjective
- suffused, saturated, penetrated, or filled with something (sometimes used in combination):
As a precaution, deputies evacuated six houses surrounding the odor-permeated area.
Now thick smoke from fires in three neighboring states is clotting our already permeated sky.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of permeate ( def ).
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Other Words From
- un·per·me·at·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of permeated1
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Example Sentences
The uncertainty that permeates election years really seemed to take a toll on our election draft picks, as Libby noted in this week’s special election night podcast.
The Echo’s speakers therefore, presumably produce sound that better permeates through a room.
Sometimes people will just glue the top of their mats, but the glue might be able to permeate through the hole area.
Posts disseminating misinformation, conspiracy theories, and attempts to suppress voters have permeated services like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
In fact, ethnic minorities are erased from national stories, and the discrimination these groups face is staunchly ignored even as it permeates every aspect of their — our — existence in the state, even by those who ought to know better.
Each book has gripping scenes on the fear that permeated Argentina in those years.
That was not a feeling that permeated most of the rest of my childhood experience.
That warm intimacy permeated her announcement that she was leaving Today in 2006, the perfect mixture of frank and heartfelt.
The original series was as permeated through and through by Sagan, not just on the air, but off as well.
Even though colors have now permeated her works, it still has a lot to do with depth and form.
And yet he heard songs that sounded like a caress and his whole being was permeated by a sense of delicious freshness.
The whole daring passion of the Orient that costumed her seemed to have permeated every fiber of her small being.
The sparkle in her eyes seemed to have permeated her voice as well.
It was almost unbelievable to herself that her life could be permeated by a thing Edith knew nothing about.
In a few moments a fire was burning brightly, water was boiling, pots were steaming, the odor of venison permeated the cool air.
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